Best Something Street Studios Podcasts (2024)

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Alive and Well | 5 41:11

1d ago41:11

41:11

The mystery illness in LeRoy has a new victim: a boy. Across the world, curiously similar patterns emerge in a more recent outbreak affecting hundreds of CIA officers and diplomats. Could the cases be more connected than they appear? Listen to Hysterical on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge all episodes of Hysterical early an…

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Waiting for Brockovich | 4 36:35

15d ago36:35

36:35

An anonymous tipster slides an envelope under a parent’s door with a shocking revelation: a toxic train derailment from the 1970s may be contaminating the water in LeRoy. Environmental activist Erin Brockovich sends her team to investigate. Listen to Hysterical on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge all episodes of Hysterical e…

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We Have Another One | 3 37:19

19d ago37:19

37:19

The illness spreads from high schoolers to a 36-year-old nurse and mother. Meanwhile, a teen girl gets a diagnosis in front of a live studio audience… from a former contestant of the Bachelor. Listen to Hysterical on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge all episodes of Hysterical early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery+ i…

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Listen Now: Hysterical 6:43

20d ago6:43

6:43

Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass…

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All In Your Head | 2 33:47

22d ago33:47

33:47

With more than a dozen girls now afflicted with the mystery illness in LeRoy, parents are scared and demanding answers. Chaos erupts when state health officials hold a town meeting, but won’t reveal their findings. When a parent lets the diagnosis slip, it will leave the whole town doubting their doctors, neighbors, and even their own minds. Listen…

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Outbreak | 1 28:54

25d ago28:54

28:54

In the fall of 2011, a high school girl in LeRoy, New York falls ill: spasms, outbursts, and uncontrollably violent movements. As the mysterious illness spreads throughout the school, a young doctor attempts to connect the dots. Is there an external pathogen? Or is what’s happening in LeRoy something far more mysterious? Listen to Hysterical on the…

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Introducing: Hysterical 2:42

2M ago2:42

2:42

Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York. What is causing their sudden, often violent symptoms? Is there something in the water or inside the school? Or is it “all in their head?” The series examines the outbreak in LeRoy, NY, believed by some to be the most severe case of mass…

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Introducing: The Competition 7:10

4M ago7:10

7:10

Every summer for the past seven decades, 50 high school seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take part in one of the country’s most lucrative scholarship competitions for teen girls. The Competition takes you behind the scenes of the Distinguished Young Women (DYW) program, and follows seven girls as they experience the highs …

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Before We Go 15:49

2y ago15:49

15:49

A final note from our producers. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy

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The Lido 35:17

2y ago35:17

35:17

On a little island sandwiched between Miami Beach and mainland Florida sits an old pink apartment complex called The Lido. It’s unlike anything around it; a remnant of an old Miami. One of the tenants, Paula Barros, guides us through this colorful building and the colorful people who live there. There’s Eddie, the exhausted HOA Board President, a s…

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Unsent Letters 1:03:20

2y ago1:03:20

1:03:20

Two stories of people writing letters but never sending them. A grown brother and sister discover a stack of notebooks left behind by their late father, filled with letters written to them when they were children. And a woman writes letters for a year to process an incredible and devastating loss. To learn more about listener data and our privacy p…

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Summer Break 15:14

2y ago15:14

15:14

It's been 11 months of The 11th, so we're taking a little break. But! We've got some previews of shows our colleagues here at Pineapple Street Studios are making — shows that are perfect for a long road trip, a walk in the woods, or an afternoon cooking out. Shows featured include: Persona Love Thy Neighbor Project Unabom Borderline Salty To learn …

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His Saturn Return 1:09:24

2y ago1:09:24

1:09:24

This month, The 11th presents: His Saturn Return. Creator, writer, and performer Sai Sion lets us peek into his expansive imagination with this cosmic audio drama that will transport you across the galaxy. We travel through time and space to meet Duran Durag on the brink of his Saturn Return. He’s cocky and charming, smooth and clumsy. If it weren’…

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Walking Tours for Your Home 44:47

2+ y ago44:47

44:47

This month, a collaboration with McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Radiotopia. Several writers, producers, and artists were asked to take on the concept of an audio tour, but instead of guiding us through a city or a museum, they guide us through our own homes. These tours are interactive, and intimate. They are a trip not just through the physical…

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A Very Good Question 13:26

2+ y ago13:26

13:26

When she was a kid, Lina Misitzis heard a line in a movie that really stuck. She’d repeat it to friends and family, drop it in texts and conversations mindlessly. But then, twenty years later, she realized: The line doesn’t make any sense. This month, not a bedtime story exactly, but a story about bedtime. About saying goodnight. To learn more abou…

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The Happiness Project 34:07

2+ y ago34:07

34:07

Charles Spearin is a long-time member of the band Broken Social Scene. In 2007, he was on paternity leave, spending time with his kids on the playground, talking with his neighbors. That’s when he started noticing the musical quality of the voices around him. He asked his neighbors to come over to his house so he could interview them. And then he t…

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Episode 10: Jim Barnes On Why He is the Choice for Sacramento County Sheriff. 39:32

2+ y ago39:32

39:32

Sacramento County is going to be looking for a new Sheriff in 2022 as current Sheriff Scott Jones seeks a Congressional seat. After 12 years as Sheriff and 33 years with the force, he's looking for something different. His endorsed replacement is Jim Barnes, a 22 year veteran with the Sacramento County Sheriffs department. Join our conversation as …

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LOVE 40:37

2+ y ago40:37

40:37

This month on The 11th, a story about love. Writers Resham Mantri and Carvell Wallace let us in on the most intimate details of their long distance relationship as they figure out how they want to love and be loved. Through a collage of essays, audio diaries, and interviews the two share their approach to practicing love: deliberately. No promises …

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I'm Here To Pep You Up 51:18

2+ y ago51:18

51:18

Look, times are tough, and we could all use a little encouragement. Here's a bunch of pep talks. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy

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Exhausting A Place 47:57

2+ y ago47:57

47:57

This month on the 11th, three people spend several hours (sometimes days) just sitting in one place. Watching. Listening. A cemetery in Virginia… a cafe in New York… a plaza in Mexico… It’s inspired by the book An Attempt At Exhausting A Place in Paris, by French author Georges Perec, who wrote that “nothing is happening all the time.” But what’s h…

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The Beige Room — Part 1: Choose Your Own Adventure 49:07

3y ago49:07

49:07

For 30 years The Landmark Forum has offered promises of profound personal breakthroughs. Millions of people have paid this organization hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars in hopes of getting a rapid transformation. Some say that what takes years of therapy to do… this program can do in a weekend. Their method sounds appealingly simple - they …

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The Beige Room — Part 2: Whatever Happened to Werner? 39:33

3y ago39:33

39:33

Cracks start to show as journalists put pressure on EST and Werner Erhard. The story of his separation from the group in the wake of profound controversy is incredibly telling. It’s a rare look into how a group with a divisive public image was able to rebrand itself in the face of disaster. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practice…

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The Beige Room — Part 3: The Chicken and the Egg 27:21

3y ago27:21

27:21

The ideas and slogans Landmark draws on are seemingly everywhere. Particularly in the modern parlance of corporate America. Company culture — workplace authenticity, personal responsibility, making employees feel “like owners” — it can feel like a way to pass the buck on. In the final episode of The Beige Room, we look at how the ideas of Landmark …

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Professor Anita Hill & Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in Conversation 53:15

3y ago53:15

53:15

30 years ago on October 11th, Professor Anita Hill testified to Congress about sexual harassment she’d suffered when working with then Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas. Thomas denied Hill’s allegations. In 2018, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before a committee comprised of many of the very same men about an attempted sexual assault she …

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Episode 9: Talking Sacramento Real Estate with Terry Knight. 32:26

3y ago32:26

32:26

Listen in as today's discussion is with long time Real Estate Agent, Terry Knight. We'll be talking about the market in general, some of the historical challenges real estate has faced and a look forward about what to expect in the near future. Will our children or our grandchildren ever be able to get to the point where they can own a home as we k…

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Crane's Corner: 9-15-21 A Big Win For Democracy 3:37

3y ago3:37

3:37

What was the big takeaway from Tuesday’s resounding defeat of the Recall Governor Newsom petition? That Gavin Newsom is a terrific Governor? That the recall never had a chance? Those visits from the President and Vice President made all the difference. No. The big takeaway is that Democracy prevailed. Democrat voters outnumber republican voters by …

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Crane's Corner: 9-16-21 California Screamin 3:43

3y ago3:43

3:43

I suppose every state has its problems. Michigan lives and dies by the auto industry, which is now at a crossroads. Production is being hampered by shortages of computer chips while prices are putting new vehicles out of the hands of many would-be buyers. New York’s governor jumped before he could be pushed out of office and crime in New York and o…

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Crane's Corner: 9-14-21 Shirking From Home 4:40

3y ago4:40

4:40

It started before the Pandemic. I began working from home in January 2020, doing the morning news on a local radio station, and later other broadcast related work including writing and recording this Crane’s Corner Podcast. I continue working from home, not because of Covid 19, but because the equipment I need is right here---so why pay the expense…

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Crane's Corner: 9-8-21 Amazon Goes Old School 4:14

3y ago4:14

4:14

Jeff Bezos can prove he’s a lot smarter than most of us with the mere opening of a bank statement. But the man who gave us Amazon and rewrote the book on retail sales, delivery and marketing in the 21st Century must really be bored. If he’s not riding a rocket ship to just this side of outer space, with plans for galactic expansion, he’s going back…

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Crane's Corner: 9-7-21 Murder in Land Park 4:13

3y ago4:13

4:13

It was a vicious crime spree. A senseless crime spree. Awful as it was, the murder of a quiet animal loving Land Park woman may wind up being more than just a crime statistic in a state governed by people who tire of keeping them, blaming everyone and everything but the criminal for his assault on Mary Kate Tibbits and human decency. Police say the…

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Time Machine: The Score (Side A) 44:02

3y ago44:02

44:02

In the summer of 1996, music writer and poet Hanif Abdurraqib was 12 years old and living in Columbus, Ohio. His soundtrack for that summer: the seminal hip-hop album, The Score by Fugees. In Time Machine: The Score, Hanif transports us back in time, to a pivotal moment in both his life and in hip-hop. Track 1: On Bicycles Track 2: On Basements Int…

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Time Machine: The Score (Side B) 42:07

3y ago42:07

42:07

Music writer and poet Hanif Abdurraqib meditates on the meaning of The Score 25 years later. He examines the political impact of Fugees’ landmark album and contemplates the way its massive success transformed the lives of each member of the group. Hanif also contemplates loss and grief and the way they colored 1996 in Time Machine: The Score. Inter…

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Crane's Corner: 9-1-21 The Great Covid Con 5:04

3y ago5:04

5:04

There’s an old saying that is usually brought into the conversation, when a political argument begins to escalate: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts” The saying comes to mind in this year 2 of Covid as the virus, commanding a growing legion of variants is back with a vengeance, How? Didn’t we get a vac…

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Crane's Corner: 9-2-21 Secretary of Hypocrisy 3:49

3y ago3:49

3:49

Nancy Pelosi loves ice cream. Too bad she doesn’t feel the same way about babies. Pelosi is a hypocrite, She’s a practicing Catholic who supports Abortion, long a no no in that faith. She went absolutely nuts when a small band of Trump supporters made a misguided, unlawful storming of the U-S Capitol, in which 5 people died. How does that stack up …

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Crane's Corner: 8-31-21 Pandemic Profit Plundering 5:08

3y ago5:08

5:08

America’s collective work ethic is being put to the test--and so far, we’re grading around a D and an F isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Thanks to our government--federal and state government, America has replaced the word “enterprise” with “entitlement”. Once upon a time, a walk through a suburban business district might offer an occasional …

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Crane's Corner: 8-26-21 A Cup A Day 4:50

3y ago4:50

4:50

I’ve been a daily coffee drinker since my college days and if I miss a cup, I get cranky. That's partly the caffeine, but it’s also the ritual of getting the day started with a warm beverage that officially separates you from a night's sleep and directs your brain to move forward. Coffee by itself...not the half soy milk double shot caramel latte w…

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Crane's Corner: 8-25-21 Favorites Run Out of the Money 6:28

3y ago6:28

6:28

It was in the spring of 2020 as Covid 19 began hitting America and the world with a vengeance. It soon became clear that the virus--with no vaccine available, was spreading fast, potentially deadly to the elderly, the sick and those with underlying conditions. It also became clear that this was a very unique situation. For one thing, no one could o…

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Crane's Corner: 8-24-21 Prevent Offense 5:41

3y ago5:41

5:41

Over the years there have been political hacks, immoral scalliwags and outright thieves leading the 50 states, and outside of waiting till they term out or sadly, political assasination, the way Kentucky Governor Bill Goebel left office, the only way to end their in office tyranny is to recall them, Not every state has that procedure on the books, …

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Crane's Corner: 8-19-21 America Problem 8:14

3y ago8:14

8:14

America has a serious problem. The Problem resides in Delaware but will be spending the next 3 years and a few months in Washington DC, where even though he is a serious problem he somehow managed to get elected President. Every president is a problem to somebody, because administrations policies usually help some group or groups and adversely affe…

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Crane's Corner: 8-18-21 Covid 2.0 3:31

3y ago3:31

3:31

His name was Don La Fontaine, a professional announcer who made millions cornering the Movie Trailer market some years back. Had he lived, he’d probably be scaring us with this promo: “Just when you thought it was safe to unmask..to raise a glass on a flight to Cleveland...comes the return of CO VID. It’s no match for bleach, or Trump and probably …

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Crane's Corner: 8-17-21 The Shirt Tells The Story 6:33

3y ago6:33

6:33

Anyone who was there and I was, cannot forget the horrors of 9-11. It was at once, among the most beautiful, crisp fall days one could behold, nice enough to numb New York briefly to the horror that would come.Gotham..at the height of a weekday rush hour is loud; a cacophony of assorted noise--traffic honking horns, a police whistle, pedestrian cha…

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It's The 11th 5:20

3y ago5:20

5:20

What happens in this feed? Well, anything could happen really. Here's a taste of what’s to come. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy

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The Inbox: Part 1, Emily 40:57

3y ago40:57

40:57

Emily was up for tenure at her university when a student she’d never met accused her of harassment. How does one defend themself when the very act of defense is seen as an attack? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices…

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The Inbox: Part 2, Frances 39:36

3y ago39:36

39:36

Frances was a Mexican-American, first generation college student, Ph.D. and head of a university department. Then a colleague reported rumors that she was sleeping with students. What do you do when a law designed to protect women from sexual harassment is weaponized against them? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: h…

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The Inbox: Part 3, Vivian 31:12

3y ago31:12

31:12

A story of harassment unlike any other in Sarah’s inbox. A seemingly never-ending string of events, already a decade long, terrorizing a woman, her friends, and her colleagues. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.co…

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The Inbox: Part 4, Mark and Ken 27:30

3y ago27:30

27:30

When a military veteran is framed for sending explicit messages at a community tennis club, questions about the long history of anonymity and homophobia rise to the fore. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adch…

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Crane's Corner: 8-5-21 Elder... Statesman for California 4:05

3y ago4:05

4:05

It’s only one poll, but it’s a shocker. A survey of 11 hundred Californians, conducted by Surveys USA and The San Diego Union Tribune shows voters are not only poised to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, but by a wide margin. 49 percent want the Governor to Go, 40 percent want him to stay. That 11 percent of undecided voters could push Newsom out. In t…

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Crane's Corner: 8-4-21 Murphy's in the Cockpit - Cancelled Flights 5:40

3y ago5:40

5:40

I can’t say I rigidly obey every law on the books. Some are dumb. Others, just too tempting to break. Who among us on an empty freeway have defied the 55 mile per hour speed limit and edged up to 60 miles per hour or better? But the one law I don’t mess with is the one that seems to foil me anyway. Murphy’s law. Which basically states, anything tha…

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Crane's Corner: 8-3-21 Do The Right Thing, Delta Could Mean Death. 5:02

3y ago5:02

5:02

Here we go again. 17 months after Co Vid 19 came roaring out of China--reportedly leaked from a lab whose research was partially being funded by the U-S, new cases are rising. Mandatory wearing of masks is coming back in Sacramento and a number of other California counties. The so-called infectious disease experts, who seem to change their view as …

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Episode 8: Gone in the blink of an eye. The final story on TWA Flight 800. 34:07

3y ago34:07

34:07

Yes, it really was 25 years ago that flight 800 was literally blown out of the sky. 230 people would perish that fateful day off Long Island and it was a horrific scene for many days. It would take an additional 4 years to get any sort of conclusive closure, if you believe the final outcome of one of the most laborious tasks of reconstruction of an…

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